MEDIA RELEASE
For release: 22 March 2011
The Australian Christian Lobby’s Managing Director Jim Wallace has today rejected comments by union leader Paul Howes that allowing same sex couples to marry was an issue of discrimination.
“Practical discrimination against same sex couples has been removed by the amendment to 84 pieces of Commonwealth legislation in 2008,” said Mr Wallace.
“For all intents and purposes, same sex couples are treated in exactly the same way as any other couple under Australian law.
“The claim of discrimination is merely a ploy to engender sympathy for an activist agenda over an important social and cultural institution that transcends religions and cultures.
“It is irresponsible for Party officials to perpetuate this myth when it was the ALP that removed the discrimination at the Federal level.
“If examples of substantive discrimination exist, it is beholden on those claiming it to identify them so the community can asses whether it justifies the destruction of an institution held important to so many to redress them, or whether there are other less selfish ways to do it” Mr Wallace said.
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Some Maths for Paul Howes:
MARRIAGE = One man + one eligible wife, for life.
This isn’t an issue of discrimation, because marriage isn’t a right; rather its an issue of eligibility.
Some relationships aren’t eligible. That’s life. Brothers can’t marry sisters, fathers can’t marry daughters, men can’t marry more than one woman.
3 + 3 will never equal 10, even if the gruesome Greens try and change the textbooks.
If anyone hassles you about ‘equality’, quote them the formula about what marriage really equals. 3 + 3 does not equal 10.
One wonders why a union leader is making statements about non workplace issues?
Marriage – that which is truly a marriage, can only be between a man and a woman – because the purpose of the union is procreation, but not only for procreation but also to care for the children of that union. It is God ordained. Homosexuality cannot procreate.